| Show GERMANS nr nt IN OPENING OF activities BRINGS BALKAN STATES TO POINT WHERE THEY MUST DECIDE russian meet defeat at hand hands a of f von buelow who hae has won cattle battle in vicinity of Kub kubaiko liko tak in ing 2000 prisoners london shells from german guns are bursting in the ruins of belgrade Hel grade as an army of and Austro germans bencen rated along the border from licar the doumanian Rou manian frontier to seni tin Is preparing to cut Us its way through to turkey inith alth the opening of the tei oa dal 1 kan drive Rou roumania matila and greece 91 a 9 1 brought to a point where they will have to declare des tare either for the powers of the quad entente or for the central empire and their ally th the sultan reports that the germans and aus trans had mobilized forces estimated from rom to men along the serbian frontier preparatory td a campaign to crush the Ser serbian blans and open a way for the shipment of munitions to turkey have been received from various sources in the past week there have been several clashes between the serbs and austrians on the i frontier jin a the few days belgrade was occupied by the aus triana after a siege on cn december 2 1914 but was by the serbian twelve days later following a alerc battle tho recapture of their capital by the serbs was followed by a campaign chich cleared their country of invaders until a fen fc days ago the Au ni made no further attempt to crush their swill neighbor and the Inte intervening time has been oo 00 coupled by the Ser serbians blans lu u ing their forces having flaying recovered fron from the tile check inflicted on or him early taj in week by the rusland Ru von buelow commanding that portion of the array army ot of von hindenburg operating to the west ot of the river evinsk again has taken the offensive and according to the official report published by berlin haa has beaten the russians in a battle in the viclet ty of kubasko and pushed them back in a northeasterly direction taking more than 2000 |
